Welcome to my new subscribers! I am glad you’re here and hope that watching me stumble my way through writing my second novel will help you with your writing.
I’m six months into publishing Stumbling Toward Genius. It’s been fun to have this project alongside my novel-writing. This process of pausing weekly to reflect and check-in helps me feel empowered and connected to my novel writing. It keeps me honest:
aware of each week passing
clear about what I can give to the novel that week, and
conscious of my patterns of taking on too many things.
Writing Stumbling Toward Genius helps me to keep readers in mind. Fiction writing isn’t the same as non-fiction, where you really need to be writing to a specific person. My goal is to write a bestseller. This keeps me focused less on popularity and more on quality.
All of this to say, I am enjoying this and I hope you are, too.
It’s my birthday on Wednesday! 57!
To celebrate, I am giving all subscribers access to all of July’s posts for free.
Please leave comments and let me know how/if these articles inspire your writing life. And if you’re inspired, please share!
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Thank you for being here with me as I stumble toward genius.
Happy birthday, Cynthia— May the next year be joyful and meaningful and may all this hard work reap rewards!
HBD! Celebrate big!